Internet Archive says employees have asked to be paid partially in bitcoin

It seems like every week or so, bitcoin is moving further into the mainstream. Most recently, it was online gambling .In November, even WordPress started taking payment in the digital currency. Last year, a bitcoin bank was launched . And on Thursday, the Internet Archive announced that it wants to collect donations , in bitcoin , so that it can pay its employees—some of their salary, if they so choose—in bitcoin. The online archive's mission is to store digital documents, including, most notably, previous versions of webpages. If all goes well, wrote Brewster Kahle, the Internet Archive’s founder, the move will start in April 2013, adding “we hope to make it a continuing option." The group's address is: 17gN64BPHtxi4mEM3qWrxdwhieUvRq8R2r. Kahle wrote the day before that bitcoin is the “local currency” of the Internet. “There are local currencies like Ithaca Hours or Berna...